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 FIXME should these two things go together? FIXME should these two things go together?
 +FIXME Dank PL Memes racist/sexist question Twitter post
  
 ===== The Burning IVF Lab ===== ===== The Burning IVF Lab =====
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   * Abortion advocates want to say that since virtually everyone would save the little girl, that this indicates that the 5-year-old has a higher moral status than the embryos. If pro-lifers really believed that all human beings have equal status, then they'd save the larger number of people.    * Abortion advocates want to say that since virtually everyone would save the little girl, that this indicates that the 5-year-old has a higher moral status than the embryos. If pro-lifers really believed that all human beings have equal status, then they'd save the larger number of people. 
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 +Summarized another way:
 +> You are in a burning IVF clinic. In one corner, a child. In the other, 1000 embryos. Which do you save? If you save the toddler, this shows that you know they’re not equal. And if you’d just admit this, you’d understand that abortion is ok.
  
 ==== Relative Suffering ==== ==== Relative Suffering ====